He is such an ahole. Whatever useful infor (and he does have some) his videos contained are buried behind a 5 min "I'm awesome, people I don't like are evil, and you're stupid" intro.
On the subject of the video, GOA is correct that 922(r) applies to SBRs, but not pistols, so there are a number of imported pistols out there that are prohibited from being made into rifles. Of course it's also prohibited to have an unregistered SBR.
The trick is in when exactly the rifle was "made".
If you bought a Skorpion EVO pistol with brace installed, it looks like that is going to be 922(r) non compliant because it was (according to the ATF) a crypto-sbr during it's importation.
If you bought an imported pistol, and installed the brace yourself then You are the person making the crypto-sbr at that time, and the only way to make it 922(r) compliant would be to have swapped out enough of the (unmarked and undated) 922 compliance parts prior to installing the stock.
BUT here's what 922(r) actually says:
It shall be unlawful for any person to assemble from imported parts any semiautomatic rifle or any shotgun which is identical to any rifle or shotgun prohibited from importation under section 925(d)(3) of this chapter as not being particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes except that this subsection shall not apply to—
(1)the assembly of any such rifle or shotgun for sale or distribution by a licensed manufacturer to the United States or any department or agency thereof or to any State or any department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or
(2)the assembly of any such rifle or shotgun for the purposes of testing or experimentation authorized by the Attorney General.
You can't
assemble a 9221(r) non-compliant rifle. It says nothing about possessing one. So there's no legal reason that you can't register (if you want) your 922(r) non-compliant rifle, especially if you didn't assemble it. ATF does say in the final rule (the responding to comments about costs associated with the rule) that "ATF assumes this group may use another scenario, such as destroying the firearm or turning it in to ATF, by using the population derived from bump-stock-type devices as a proxy" but assuming is not a requirement. ATF says themselves that the criminal act was the "assembly" into a rifle, not the possession of the rifle.
ATF may decline to register a 922(r) non-compliant rifle, but I'll bet good money they won't because if they don't register the rifle, then everyone that has an imported pistol with a brace that they didn't install now has standing to sue. That's just my opinion though.
Clear as mud. right?
Also:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/search?conditions%5Bpublication_date%5D%5Bgte%5D=12%2F25%2F2022&conditions%5Bterm%5D=stabilizing+braceStill not there.......
